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The Death of General Wolfe

Bengamin West

1770

British

Takes place during the French and Indian War

This was realistic with the details, except for the fact it is an actual battle.

Has elements of nature

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The Oath of the Horatii

David Jacques-Louis

1784

The most famous painter of his time.

Uses the background as a stage for when it is set in

Easily see each image using plararity

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The Death of Marat

David Jacques Louis

1793

Made during the French Revelotion

Favorite artist of the French Revelotion

Depicts the death of Jacques Gosto

Classical even lighting

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Lion Attacking a Horse

George Stubbs

1770

British

perfect example of natural art of the time

horse is to symbolise purity

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The Village Bride

Jean Baptiste Geuze

1761

Has Neo-Classimism in it

This is a moral story about a middle class family

The hen depects the mom with one of the chicks seperated from her just like her daughter being married off.

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Empiricism

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knoweldge comes from practical experience rather tahn abstract thought or religious revelation

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John Locke

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philosophy

stressed empiricism

was apart of the Art in the Age, of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789

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Isaac Newton

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Mathematicican

stressed emipiricism

Played a huge part in the Art in the Age, the Enlightebnement

1750-1789

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Salons and philosophes

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A large elegant, elegant drawing or reception room in a palace or a private house.

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Any large paublic exhibition patterned after the Paris Salon.

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Voltaire’s “doctrine of progress”

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Started the Rococo art in France

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Planarity

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Used to described a composistion where figures and objects are arranged parallel to the picture plane.

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Linearity

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A term used to refer to images that have strong sense of line that provides sharp contours to figures and objects

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Wedgewood’s Jasperware porcelain

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wedgwood created a unglazed porcelain in the 18th century. It is decorated with Classically inspired bas relief or cameo figures and ornamented in white relief on a colored ground, especially blue and sage green

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Authenticitiy in History Pantings

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Jacques-Louis David

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Changed the Classical values and called for a new art form

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Sublime and Beautiful

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Poussinistes

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line is superior to color

Believed only the educated could appreciate it.

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Rubenistes

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Color being truer to nature

Appealed to everyon even the poor

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Pastels

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Colored Chalks or powders that are mixed with glue, juice gum arabic or whey. Then rolled into a cylindrical tube.

Used for putting color and lines

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Vedute (view) Paintings

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The Swing

Jean Honore Fragonard

1767

An example of an intrigue

the “boudoir painting” (sexual imtinacy) offers thrill and voyourism

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Room in the Varengeville Hotel

Nicolas Pineau

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The Bucintoro at the Molo

Canaletto

1732

one of a series

symbolizes Venices marriage to the sea

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The Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa

Giovanni Mattista Tiepolo

1752

was considered the master of light and color

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Cult of the Individual

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Sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, history are among the areas in which humanists gave their most significant contributions,

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Hudson River School

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America’s first art movement and was based on landscape

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plein-air studies

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Sketching outdoors in order to capture the immediate effects of light on landscapes and other subjects

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GOthic revival

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Form of gothic architecture that began in England. Cold dark and gloomy spaces in large building

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Francisco Goya

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The third of may The family of Charles IV

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Joseph Turner

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Second major British landscape artist in romanticism The slave ship or Slavers throwing over the dead and dying

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Eugene Delacroix

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Romanticism Scenes from the massacre at Chios Death of Sardanapalus Women of Algiers

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The Third of May 1808

Francisco Goya

1814

Show the mass excution of rebels

The illuminated figure depicts Crist

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The Slave Ship

Joseph M.W. Turner

1840

romantic with the sun, sea and the sky

this piture is about a captain that throws all his slaves over board so he could get a insurance payout

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The Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault

1819

The crew of a ship were put onto a raft and drifted around the coast of Africa for 13 days till another ship found them.

This shows survial and the human condition

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The Departure of the Volunteers

Francois Rude

1835

there are many classical ellements

represents liberity

this peice became more famous than the artist itself

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The Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix

1827

Based off of a peom

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The luncheon on the Grass

Edouard Manet

1863

was a condemnation of values and academic taste as well as a statement of what art should be about- this would be like a photo of naked whores in the grass today

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The Child’s Bath

Mary Cassatt

1892

It was uncommon to have indoor plumbing in Paris at this time

Was a womens avacit for her time

Had a strong Japanees influence

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Impression Sunrise

Claude Money

1872

this was thought to be very poorly done

used brush strokes that were short and quick

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Luncheon of the Boating Party

Augusy Renoir

1881

noted for doing out door scenes in the country

married the woman the is holding the dog

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Wheatstack Sun in the Mist

Claude Money

1891

Fucos on light and change

Did a series of these paintings in different seasons with the same haystack

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The Awakening Conscience

William Holman Hunt

1854

Very victorian era with the details of the painting

The mirror in the background depects her past and what she desires to go back to

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Gustav Courbet

1849

Was thought to be insulting due to the fact the people were poor.

Faces are hiddenn to represent the common people

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Edouard Manet

1863

This was like taking a photo of whores fucking in a park today

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Mary Cassatt

1892

it wass uncoomon to have indoor plumbing in paris at this time

Cassatt was a womens avicate for her time

had a stron japanise influence

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Post Imperssionism

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the avant-garde art that took art in a new directions

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Paul Cezanne

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Painted Mont Sainte-Vicoire

Still life with apples

Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from Bibemus Quarry

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Neo-Impressionism

(chromoluminarism-pointillism-divisionism)

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it had an army of pratitioners who were attracted to its scientific approach, monumentailty, and modern look.

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Vincent van Gogh

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Night Cafe

Vincent van Gogh

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Symbolism

(Synthetism)

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An art movement which rejected the purely visual realism of the Impressionists, and the rationality of the Industrial Age, in order to depict the symbols of ideas

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Auguste Rodin

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Sculpture

Gates of Hell

The thinker

Three Shades

Walking Man

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Art Nouveau

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French for “The New Art.”

An international art movement and style of decoration and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, characterized particularly by the curvilinear depiction of leaves and flowers, often in the form of vines

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture

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Prairie Houses

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Architecture created primarily in the midwestern U.S., beginning in Chicago c.1900 with Louis Sullivan (American, 1856-1924) and Frank Lloyd Wright (American, 1867-1959). Exploring new ways of relating buildings to the land, these architects employed undecorated natural materials, and developed new concepts of interior space.

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Jacob Riis

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Photographer

Five Cents

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Paul Cexanne,

1887

painted the same mountian in more than 60 paintings

brood brush strokes

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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte

Georges Seurat

made out of tiny dots or pointillism

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Starry Night

Vincent van Gough

1889

post impressant

painted while in the crazy house

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The Vision After The Sermon

Paul Gauguin

1888

influnced by mid-evil art

he was a custom officer

convenced himself that he was the worlds greatest artist

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The Dream

Henri Rousseau

1910

was the last painting

cuban influence

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The Scream

Edvard Munch

1893

this was created many different times and was copied many times

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Salome

Aubrey Beardsley

1892

Based off of a one act play

*Will be on the multi choice

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Burghers of Calais

Auguste Rodin

1889

sculpture

made out of clay and dipped in bronze

studied mich

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Wainwright Building

Louis Sullivan

St. Louis

1891

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Robie House

Frank Lloyd Wright

Chicago 1910

example of a praire house

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Five Cents a Spot

Jacob Riis

1889

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Fauvism

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An early twentieth century art movement and style of painting in France. The name Fauves, French for “Wild Beasts,” was given to artists adhering to this style because it was felt that they used intense colors in a violent, uncontrolled way

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Analytic Cubism

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Analytic cubists reduced natural forms to their basic geometric parts and then tried to reconcile these essentially three-dimensional parts with the two-dimensional picture plane.

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Synthetic Cubism

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the subject matter is broken up, analyzed, and reassembled in an abstracted form

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Expressionism

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An art movement dominant in Germany from 1905-1925, especially Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, which are usually referred to as German Expressionism

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nonobjective painting

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Artworks having no recognizable subject matter (not recognizable as such things as houses, trees, people, etc.)

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Readymades

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An object manufactured for some other purpose, presented by an artist as a work of art. Between 1914 and 1921, Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968), who originated this concept, selected and signed, among others, a snow shovel, a comb, and a urinal.

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Armory Show

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This was the first large exhibition of modern art in America. It was held in the 69th Regiment Armory building in New York City in 1913.

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Pablo Picasso

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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon

Guitar, Sheet Music, and Wine Glass

Violin

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The Joy of Life

Henri Matisse

1906

depense logical space

evoked a idoilic classical world

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The Young Ladies of Avignon

Pablo Picasso

1907

people thought this was porn

contored te libs on the body to be all over the place

fruit is a symbol for lust

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Sketch of “Compposition VII”

Vasily Kandinsky

1913

non objective painting

trying to music into visual forms

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I and the Village

Marc Chagall

1911

circle in the middle represents life

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Nude Descending a Staircase

Marchel Duchamp

1912

Caputered motion on film and put it on his painting

Cubiizim

The title is very important to the work

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Bird in Space

Constantin Brancusi

1928

looking up at it it looks like the bird is about to take flight.

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Dadaism

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An early twentieth century art movement which ridiculed contemporary culture and traditional art forms

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Surrealism

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Influenced by the theories of the pioneer of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, the images found in surrealist works are as confusing and startling as those of dreams. Surrealist works can have a realistic, though irrational style, precisely describing dreamlike fantasies

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Bauhaus

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a fervent utopianism, based upon ideals of simplified forms and unadorned functionalism, and a belief that the machine economy could deliver elegantly designed items for the masses, using techniques and materials employed especially in industrial fabrication and manufacture — steel, concrete, chrome, glass, etc.

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Works Project Administration

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FDR act where he put people to work building briges roads and also work. He asked people to take photos to document the way of life of people living through the dust bowl.

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Marcel Duchamp

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Biycycle Wheel

Fountain

In Advance of a Broken Arm

Nude Descending a Staircase

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Georgia O’Keefe

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Black Iris III

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Salvador Dali

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An Andalusion Dog

Persistence of Memory

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Diego Rivera

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Man at the Crossroads Looking with Hopee and High Vision to a New and Better Future

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Frida Kahlo

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The Two Fridas

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Alexander Calder

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Lobster Trap and Fish Tail

Calling of St. Mathews

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Henry Moore

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Recumbent Figure

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The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

1931

A form of surealism

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Recumbent Figure

Henry Moore

1938

depticts the female figure as a landscape

expresses the nature of stone and of nature

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Chrysler Building

William can Alen

New york

1930

art deco sky scraper 73 stories

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Black Iris III

Georgia O’Keefe

1926

Foced close up. Taken images of flowers and make them larger

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The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo

1939

took up painting during an accendent

spanish and american indian influences

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Guernca

Picasso

1937

anit-war peice to the spanis civil war

10,000 people died durning the bombing of the city

20 x 70 feet

cubism

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